Professor Charles Norman MacLeod
Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Personal statement
Charles MacLeod is a Professor in the Centre for Ultrasonic Engineering.
He is the Babcock International Group / Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Sensor-Driven Automated Welding.
He is director of the Sensor Enabled Automation & Robotics Control Hub (SEARCH), a £24M research innovation and technology transfer laboratory. Aligned to this, he is Course Director of the Autonomous Robotic Intelligent Systems (ARIS) MSc.
His research is primarily associated with the inspection and manufacturing enhancement of high-value assets and components, where he leads a number of high-profile inter-disciplinary in-process welding and metal additive research projects.
He has driven and co-developed core robotic and ultrasonic technology from fundamental EPSRC research, which is now being licensed by a leading industrial organisation and co-developed an innovative inspection robot for a critical life-extension inspection at Sellafield Reprocessing Facility.
He is the PI and designer of the Engaging Robotic Interactive Cell (ERIC) STEM Outreach cell.
His research interests include:
Non-Destructive Evaluation
In-Process Inspection of Fusion Welding & Metal Additive Components
Sensors including Ultrasonic, Electromagnetic, Tactile and Visual
Automation & Robotics
Automated Manufacturing & Welding
Teaching Activities.
Course Director: Autonomous Robotic Intelligent Systems (ARIS) MSc.
Module Registrar: EE987 Sensors & Instrumentation
Lecturer: EE312 Instrumentation and Microcontrollers
Prize And Awards
- Babcock International Group / Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Sensor Driven Automated High-Integrity Welding
- Recipient
- 1/3/2022
- The Engineer - Collaborate to Innovate Finalist AWESIM
- Recipient
- 1/3/2022
- The BINDT Annual Conference Award
- Recipient
- 5/9/2019
- University of Strathclyde Faculty of Engineering Knowledge Exchange Award (2016)
- Recipient
- 1/8/2016
- Knowledge Exchange Award
- Recipient
- 2016
- University of Strathclyde EPSRC Doctoral Prize 2014/2015
- Recipient
- 1/1/2015
Publications
- In-process non-destructive evaluation of metal additive manufactured components at build using ultrasound and eddy-current approaches
- Zimermann Rastislav, Mohseni Ehsan, Foster Euan A, Vasilev Momchil, Loukas Charalampos, Vithanage Randika KW, Macleod Charles N, Lines David, Silva Misael Pimentel Espirindio E, Fitzpatrick Stephen, Halavage Steven, McKegney Scott, Rizwan Muhammad Khalid, Pierce Stephen Gareth, Williams Stewart, Ding Jialuo
- Journal of Manufacturing Processes Vol 107, pp. 549-558 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmapro.2023.10.063
- Using phased array ultrasound to localize probes during the inspection of welds
- Gilmour Adam, Ulrichsen Alexander, Jackson William, Tabatabaeipour Morteza, Dobie Gordon, MacLeod Charles N, Murray Paul, Karkera Benjamin
- IEEE Open Journal of Instrumentation and Control (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1109/OJIM.2023.3327484
- A comparison of methods for generating synthetic training data for domain adaption of deep learning models in ultrasonic non-destructive evaluation
- McKnight Shaun, Pierce S Gareth, Mohseni Ehsan, MacKinnon Christopher, MacLeod Charles, O'Hare Tom, Loukas Charalampos
- NDT and E International Vol 141 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ndteint.2023.102978
- Considerations for process to part inspection for flexible manufacturing NDT
- Pierce Gareth, Mohseni Ehsan, Wathavana Vithanage Randika Kosala, Poole Alastair, Hifi Amine, Shields Matthew, Vasilev Momchil, Loukas Charalampos, MacLeod Charles Norman, Dobie Gordon, O'Brien-O'Reilly Janet, Munro Gavin, O'Hare Tom, Grosser Michael, Oakley Alan
- 60th Annual British Conference on NDT (2023)
- Eddy currents and ultrasonic testing data fusion for Wire + Arc Additive Manufacturing
- Mohseni Ehsan, Tunukovic Vedran, McKnight Shaun, Zimermann Rastislav, Pyle Richard, Poole Alastair, Gomes Rylan, Pierce Gareth, Rizwan Muhammad Khalid, Wathavana Vithanage Randika Kosala, MacLeod Charles Norman, Foster Euan, Ding Jialuo, Williams Stewart
- 60th Annual British Conference on NDT (2023)
- Application of eddy currents for inspection of carbon fibre composites
- Mohseni Ehsan, Pierce Gareth, Burnham Kenneth Charles, MacLeod Charles Norman, Tunukovic Vedran, Foster Euan, O'Hare Tom, Munro Gavin
- 60th Annual British Conference on NDT (2023)
Professional Activities
- Using In-Process NDE Inspection to Qualify WAAM Builds: Working towards Qualification for Different NDE Modalities
- Contributor
- 30/10/2023
- Flexible Robotics for Automated Non-Destructive Testing
- Contributor
- 24/7/2023
- Towards Flexible and Automated Robotic Multi-Pass Arc Welding
- Contributor
- 20/7/2023
- Royal Institute of Naval Architects Warship Conference - Invited Talk
- Speaker
- 31/5/2023
- Flexible Robotics to Inspect Aerospace Components
- Contributor
- 26/4/2023
- Machine Learning for Ultrasonic Testing of composites
- Contributor
- 25/4/2023
Projects
- DTP 2224 University of Strathclyde | Macleod, James
- MacLeod, Charles Norman (Principal Investigator) Dobie, Gordon (Co-investigator) Macleod, James (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 01-Jan-2027
- Robotic laser ultrasonic inspection system for integration with a WAAM cell (Royce Industrial Collaboration Programme)
- Stratoudaki, Theodosia (Principal Investigator) MacLeod, Charles Norman (Co-investigator) Pierce, Gareth (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 29-Jan-2024
- Digital Twin for Manufacturing and Image Processing
- Loukas, Charalampos (Principal Investigator) MacLeod, Charles Norman (Principal Investigator)
- Summer internship project for the student Eleanor Smith (4rth year). I am supervising the student who works on the area of digital twin for manufacturing and real-time image processing for robotic welding.
- 26-Jan-2023 - 30-Jan-2023
- Multi-Modal Sensing for Heavy-Manufacturing Robotic Welding
- Loukas, Charalampos (Principal Investigator) MacLeod, Charles Norman (Principal Investigator)
- Fusion welding of metals is a joining method fundamental to High-Value Manufacturing (HVM). Distinctive challenges such as the global shortage of welders and the increasing requirement for high-integrity components in the energy and defence sectors fuel the need to research and adopt digital welding
technologies such as sensor-enabled robotic welding. Surface and volumetric sensing approaches at the point of manufacture coupled with real-time robotic motion offer the possibility to control, adapt and consistently ensure defect-free fusion. This project seeks to investigate novel event-based neuromorphic vision sensing coupled to high-temperature in-process ultrasonic imaging to deliver high-integrity welds right the first time. - 26-Jan-2023 - 30-Jan-2023
- Residual stress measurement round robin on a wire arc additively manufactured titanium alloy
- Javadi, Yashar (Principal Investigator) Sun, Yongle (Co-investigator) Alipooramirabad, Houman (Co-investigator) MacLeod, Charles Norman (Co-investigator) Reid, Mark (Co-investigator)
- The aim of this project is the development of a round-robin residual stress measurement to investigate the residual stress in titanium (Ti–6Al–4V) Wire + Arc Additive Manufacture (WAAM) components. Cranfield will contribute with the manufacturing and finite element modelling of the WAAM samples. ANSTO is supporting the project with residual stress measurement using Neutron Diffraction (ND) method.
- 21-Jan-2023 - 21-Jan-2023
- inProcess – inspecting high-value components at the point of manufacture (SE HGSP)
- MacLeod, Charles Norman (Principal Investigator) Vasilev, Momchil (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 30-Jan-2023
Contact
Professor
Charles Norman
MacLeod
Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Email: charles.macleod@strath.ac.uk
Tel: Unlisted